Improvement in seed-planters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELIJAH MORGAN, OF MRGANTOWN, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTE-RS.

Specification forming part o1" Letters Patent N0. 14,465, dated Marh 18, 1856.

T0 all whom it may concem:

Be in known thatI, ELIJAH l\/IORGAN of Mor= gantown, in the county ofMonongalia aud State ofVirginia, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact deseription 0f the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part; thereof, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspeetive view of the entire macbine. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section through the hopper. Fig. 3 represent-s a vertical transverse section through the hopper, and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view from the under side 0f the seeding-bar.

Simiiar letters, where they ocour in the several figures, denote like parts in all.

A represents a cross-bar, through which the rods B B, that forma both the thills and runners ofthe seed-planter, pass. Those portions 0f the rods B in rear 0t' the cross-bar A are first bent downward t0 form the runners, and

then turned up vertically, or nearly so, as seen in Fig. l, and furnished with notches 0r ratohteeth l 2, &c. From the rear 0f tl1is same bar A start two supporting-pieces, O C, having holes in their rear ends, which s1ip over 'nhe vertical rear portions 0f the r0ds B, und by meansof suitably-formed surfaces in said holes the braees or supportiug-pieces may be made to catch and rest Upon either 0f the sets of ratch teeth 1 2, &c.

Upon the supporting-pieces O rests the hopper D, und said hopper m-ay be raised 01' 10W- ered by mising 0r lowering the pieces O in the notches 1 2, &c., as uireumsta-nees may require.

In windy weather the hopper may be Iowered 130 prevent; the grain from being t00 much sqattered, while in calm weather it; may be rais ed up higher. 'lhe hopper hngs, as it wem, 0n

springs, and the mo1sion 0f the machine over the ground isjust; sufficient to agitate the grain and make i.t drop regularly, a1; least: as regularl y as broadcast sowing requires.

AI: each end 0f the interior of the hopper D is a false hopper, E E, for receiving the excess of grain that may be carried past the openings in the bottom of the hopper, and which relieves theseeding-bar frorn vibratingendwise against; the grain, as will be expla-ined in connechion with the seeding-bar.

the openings and toward ehe ends of the h0pper. II; is not 0nly desimble t0 save this excess of grain, but 130 dispose 0f it; so that the bar shall not wade through it or drive up againsbit, both of which 010g the action of the machine. T0 avoid this evilI bevelofi the ends of the seeding-bar, as at i i, Fig. 4, so that; as said beveled ends am brought against the grain they will force the grain out of the line 0t' movement 0f said bar and deposit; it in the false hoppers E E, from whence il; may be -removed and plaeed back int0 the main kopper D. This arrangemeut, in connection With the sbield, allows the seeding-bar to movo.-

freely and uneneumbered by the grain, said shield being scalloped out at t, Fig. 2, to allow the grain 130 pass out.

T0 the rear .of the bar A, between the sup- 1 porting-pieces C O, is hinged by a rod or shaflz, m, a frame, G, in wbich is bang a Wheel, H, tha1: rests upon the ground, and rising and falling With all the undulations of the ground still receives a rotary motion fr0m the motion 0f the machine.

On the shafof the wheel H is a-pulley, I, 0ver which and over a pulley, J, on the shafl: m passes an endless belt, n, which gives m0- tion t0 the shaffi m.

011 the end of m there is a crank, t0 which a pitman, o, is connected by one 0f its ends, the other end of said pitn1zm being connected t0 a segment, K, (0x1 which itis adjustable,) said segment being pivoted at r, so as 130 vibmte horizonbally 011 said pivoted point. Through the segment; K projects the top 0f au arm, s,which is connected to the seedbar F, and said seed-bar receives its vibratory motion through the m0- tion 0f the segment.

L is acasing through which the arm s works, its object bein'gto prevent the grain from beaw ing against any of the moving parts of the the ehamfering or beveling of the euds of the machine. seeding-bar and the scalloping of the shield An t, Fig. 2, 'ohe shield is 01117 away 01 sca1- so that any grain that may be carried to the loped, so as to admit of a free assage of the ends of the seeding-ba-r may be forced by it grain from the ends of the seed-bar into the into said dead-hoppers, substantially as dedead-hoppers. scribed.

Having thus fully described the natura of ELIJAH MORGAN. m y invention, what I claim as new therein, and Witnesses desire to secure by Letters Patent, is E. M. MORGAN,

In combination with the dead-hoppers E E, JAMES T. CRAIG. 

